In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

His love for numerous styles of music can be traced from his early recording of stride-pianist James P. Johnson's " Johnson Rag ," all the way to the rock stylings of Eric Johnson, an invited guest on Atkins's recording sessions who, when Chet attempted to copy his influential rocker " Cliffs of Dover ," led to Atkins's creation of a unique arrangement of " Londonderry Air ( Danny Boy ).

The group regarded themselves as the disco movement's rock band that made good on the hippie movements ideals of peace, love, and freedom.

Featuring philosophical post-hippie lyrics on peace, love and morality, its acoustic folk rock occasionally fortified by harder rock, the album was not a commercial success at the time of its release.

She acquired a love of rock music during the 1970s, having been introduced by a babysitter to the music of the Los Angeles punk rock band X, which proved a life-changing experience.

Adams professes his love of other genres other than classical music ; his parents were jazz musicians, and he has also listened to rock music, albeit only passively.

Many of the band's songs dealt with themes of romance, unrequited love and sexual conquest, which were common in rock, pop and blues music.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

There was also a process that has been described as the " feminisation " of rock and roll, with the charts beginning to be dominated by love ballads, often aimed at a female audience, and the rise of girl groups like The Shirelles and The Crystals.

The three discs are subdivided relating to their content: " Brawlers " features Waits's more upbeat rock and blues songs ; " Bawlers ", his ballads and love songs ; and " Bastards ", songs that fit in neither category, including a number of spoken-word tracks.

Back in 1979, he had made a well-received debut as the ' Ace Face ' in Quadrophenia, the film version of The Who's rock opera, followed by a role as a mechanic in love with Eddie Cochran's music in Chris Petit's Radio On.

Upon hearing Timagoras ' declaration of love for him, the young man mockingly ordered him to throw himself down from the top of a tall rock.

I felt that rock music and love and peace was all a big lie ".

The song, which clocks in at just over seven minutes, is a story of forbidden love between the singer and the titular Rosalita, whose parents disapprove of his life in a rock and roll band.

John Lodge would make a defining shift in his songwriting on this album, leaving his trademark high-energy rock music, and instead gravitating towards slow love ballads such as " Lean On Me ( Tonight )" ( though he had earlier contributed some songs in this gentler vein such as " Emily's Song " for his daughter in 1971 and " Survival " in 1978, plus " Talking out of Turn " in 1981 ), while Lodge's more powerful songs continued with " Magic " and the Lennonesque " Shadows On the Wall ".

Elsie begs for his mercy, to free her to go to her love, " Leonard ", but he says that his heart is like a " massive rock " and claims her as his bride.

According to Apter, Bowie also paved the way for Smith's love of Glam rock bands such as Slade, Sweet and T. Rex, and during the same period, Robert also became a fan of Roxy Music.

In the 1980s, Boy George said about the music style of his band Culture Club, " We play rock ' n ' roll and I love rock ' n ' roll music but I don't like the lifestyle.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

In general this music focuses on themes in love, religious and epic.

Your themes of this music generally revolve around social evils and love.

Apollo, a god of music, fell in love with the instrument and offered to allow exchange of the cattle for the lyre.

In 1961, Korner and Davies formed Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R & B music.

All pop music is love and theft, and in 40 years of records whose sources have inspired volumes of scholastic exegesis, Dylan has never embraced that truth so warmly.

For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The most common use of the term ballad in modern pop music is for an emotional love song.

Moreover, Mozart also had a taste for more chromatic chords ( and greater contrasts in harmonic language generally ), a greater love for creating a welter of melodies in a single work, and a more Italianate sensibility in music as a whole.

Catullus ' love poem " Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus " in the translation by Ben Jonson was set to music ( lute accompanied song ) by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.

He also hung out in Harlem restaurants and clubs, where his love for jazz and black music would be fostered.

Ireland is well known for its love of baroque music, which is highly acclaimed at Trinity College.

Bowie's love of acting led his total immersion in the characters he created for his music.

Childhood asthma meant that McLean missed long periods of school, particularly music lessons, and although he slipped back in his studies, his love of music was allowed to flourish.

Composer John Farmer, who was in Oxford's service at the time, dedicated The First Set of Divers & Sundry Ways of Two Parts in One to him in 1591, noting in the dedication his patron's love of music.

Although William was a distant parent, he shared his love of music, especially the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, with his children.

Because he loved Verdi ’ s music, Barezzi invited Verdi to be his daughter Margherita's music teacher, and the two soon fell deeply in love.

Erinville ( which means Irishville ), Salmon River, Ogden, Bantry ( named after Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland but now abandoned and grown up in trees ) among others, where Irish last names are prevalent and the accent is reminiscent of the Irish as well as the music, traditions, religion ( Roman Catholic ), and the love of Ireland itself.

This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music ; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand.

The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

His love of travel led him to visit different parts of Armenia and Asia Minor in his old age.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

Love led to spiritual growth that, in turn, reflected an increase in love for God and humanity.

It was this argument which, Justin avers, kindled in him a love of Christ, and led him to embrace the Christian faith.

But during a summer holiday in Switzerland in 1909, Ribbentrop fell in love with a wealthy young socialite named Catherine Bell, from a Montreal banking family, which led him to substitute Canada for Tanganyika as his preferred destination.

This mentality created a vision on strongly defined gender roles, which led to the advancement of the free love movement.

Overall, his early love of Roman and Italian landscapes and of nature led to his interest in the concept of regular division of a plane, which he applied in over 150 colored works.

Two Sienese men love a lady, one of them being her child's godfather: the godfather dies, having promised his comrade to return to him from the other world ; which he does, and tells him what sort of life is led there.

* Lord Byron lived in Ravenna between 1819 and 1821, led by the love for a local aristocratic and married young woman, Teresa Guiccioli.

His love of Sweden led Appleton to leave Dartmouth College in 1976-1977 and become the director of Elektronmusikstudion, Sweden's national center for electronic music.

Bogdanovich cast the 21-year-old model Cybill Shepherd in a major role in the film and fell in love with her, an affair that eventually led to his divorce from Polly Platt, his longtime artistic collaborator and the mother of his two daughters.

The King's desire to marry a woman with two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, and ultimately led to the King's abdication in December 1936 to marry " the woman I love ".

" His popularity as a singer of love songs, coupled with his large size, led to him acquiring the affectionate nickname " The Walrus of Love ".

In the 1920s Jack Tremayne's love of Italy, which had earlier inspired the Italian Garden, led him to set up permanent home there, and lease out Heligan.

" Learn, you who have restored a Pope who was canonically deposed, and who have been led by love of money to despise my commands, learn that, if you do not amend your ways, I will soon come and make you.

On 4 January 2012, Abbott tweeted that: " White people love playing ' divide and rule ' We should not play their game ", which again led to widespread criticism including accusations of racism.

The Taphians were at war with Thebes, led by Amphitryon, whom Comaetho fell in love with.

There is no love lost between Elcmar and Oengus, and Elcmar is watching the infamous hurling match that led to Midir losing his eye.

The love of Chukwu has led to many dibias all over the Igbo land.

Allegations of a love affair between Gustav and Kurt Haijby, a wine wholesaler who sought to expand his business to the royal family, led to the court paying 170, 000 kronor under threat of blackmail by Haijby.